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The carnivalesque defunto : death and the dead in modern Brazilian literature / Robert H. Moser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moser, Robert Henry.
- Series:
- Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 46.
- Ohio University Research in International Studies. Latin America series ; no. 46
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazilian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Brazilian literature.
- Death in literature.
- Dead in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work explores the phenomenon of death and the dead in Brazil's collective and literary imagination. It offers a comparative framework by juxtaposing the Brazilian literary ghost with other Latin American, Caribbean, and North American examples.
- Contents:
- Death Is a festa : the historical development of a spirit idiom in Brazilian society
- Death and the dead as literary motifs in Brazil and beyond
- The carnivalesque defunto in Memorias postumas de Bras Cubas.
- Jorge Amado : imagining a good death
- Voices of the unburied dead.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-89680-456-9
- OCLC:
- 427644768
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